An ocean liner is a type of passenger ship primarily used for transportation across seas or oceans. Ocean liners may also carry cargo or mail, and may...
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The Olympic-class ocean liners were a trio of British ocean liners built by the Harland & Wolff shipyard for the White Star Line during the early 20th...
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This is a list of ocean liners past and present, which are passenger ships engaged in the transportation of passengers and goods in transoceanic voyages...
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The Oceanic class were a group of six ocean liners built by Harland and Wolff at Belfast, for the White Star Line, for the transatlantic service. They...
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SS Andrea Doria (redirect from Andrea Doria (ocean liner))
Andrea Doria (pronounced [anˈdrɛːa ˈdɔːrja]) was a luxury transatlantic ocean liner of the Italian Line (Società di navigazione Italia), put into service...
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The Imperator-class was a series of three large ocean liners designed and built for the Hamburg America Line (HAPAG). Envisaged by HAPAG chairman, Albert...
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Passenger ship (redirect from Passenger liner)
passengers as well as freight. Indeed, until recently virtually all ocean liners were able to transport mail, package freight and express, and other cargo...
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Cruise ship (redirect from Cruise liner)
ships are large passenger ships used mainly for vacationing. Unlike ocean liners, which are used for transport, cruise ships typically embark on round-trip...
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Streamline Moderne (redirect from Ocean liner style)
was called the style paquebot, or "ocean liner style", and was influenced by the design of the luxury ocean liner SS Normandie, launched in 1932. As the...
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SS United States (redirect from United States (ocean liner))
United States is a retired ocean liner built during 1950 and 1951 for United States Lines. She is the largest ocean liner constructed entirely in the...
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The Streamlined Ocean Liner was a design by Norman Bel Geddes for a streamlined steam-powered ocean liner. The shape was compared by Pathé to that of...
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SS Great Eastern (redirect from The Great Eastern (Ocean Liner))
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Queen Mary 2 (redirect from Queen Mary II ocean liner)
British ocean liner. She has served as the flagship of the Cunard Line since January 2004. Queen Mary 2 is, as of 2024, the only active ocean liner in service...
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The Athenic-class ocean liners were a trio of ocean liners built by Harland & Wolff shipyard for the White Star Line in the early 20th century, designed...
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The Kaiser-class ocean liners or Kaiserklasse refer to four transatlantic ocean liners of the Norddeutscher Lloyd, a German shipping company. Built by...
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Newport News Shipbuilding (section Ocean liners)
reconditioning and refurbishment of the ocean liner SS Leviathan. Before the war she had been the German liner Vaterland, but the start of hostilities...
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White Star Line (redirect from White Star liner)
Star is remembered for its innovative vessel Oceanic and for the losses of some of its best passenger liners, including the wrecking of Atlantic in 1873...
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HMHS Britannic (category Olympic-class ocean liners)
the Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast had decided to build a trio of ocean liners of unmatched size to compete with the Cunard Line's Lusitania and Mauretania...
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Steamship (section Era of the ocean liner)
Kingdom Brunel in 1838, which inaugurated the era of the trans-Atlantic ocean liner. SS Archimedes, built in Britain in 1839 by Francis Pettit Smith, was...
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Cunard Line (redirect from Cunard Liner)
for the ocean liner industry. In 1960 a government-appointed committee recommended the construction of project Q3, a conventional 75,000 GRT liner to replace...
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Titanic (category Olympic-class ocean liners)
RMS Titanic was a British ocean liner that sank on 15 April 1912 as a result of striking an iceberg on her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to...
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Big Four (White Star Line) (redirect from Big Four (ocean liners))
The "Big Four" were a quartet of early-20th-century 20,000-ton ocean liners built by the Harland & Wolff shipyard for the White Star Line, to be the largest...
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four-funnel liner, also known as a four-stacker, is an ocean liner with four funnels. Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, launched in 1897, was the first ocean liner to...
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Luxury liner may refer to: Ocean liner Luxury Liner (album), a 1977 album by Emmylou Harris Luxury Liner (1933 film), a 1933 Paramount Pictures film Luxury...
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30′W / 60.11750°N 1.97167°W / 60.11750; -1.97167 RMS Oceanic was a transatlantic ocean liner built for the White Star Line. She sailed on her maiden...
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RMS Olympic (category Olympic-class ocean liners)
RMS Olympic was a British ocean liner and the lead ship of the White Star Line's trio of Olympic-class liners. Olympic had a career spanning 24 years...
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Queen Elizabeth 2 (redirect from Queen Elizabeth II ocean liner)
Carnival UK. Project Genesis was intended to create new life in the ocean liner saga, and in 1998, Cunard revealed the name: RMS Queen Mary 2. Queen...
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and cargo Ocean liner, a type of passenger ship used primarily for long-distance transportation Cruise ship, also known as a cruise liner, a passenger...
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Oceanic was the planned name of an unfinished ocean liner that was partially built by Harland and Wolff for the White Star Line. It would have been the...
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SS Oceanic was the White Star Line's first liner and first member of the Oceanic-class; she was an important turning point in passenger liner design. Entering...
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